One 51 Place

It is very bad living here at One 51 Place. The Manager comes off NICE at FIRST until her ABSOLUTELY CRAZY PSYCHO and EXTREMELY RUDE side rears up and shows itself. She showed that side of herself to me about two weeks after I got all moved in and settled. I was trying to discuss a few issues I had here - that others have mentioned in previous reviews you see before mine - when she let a WHOLE CAN OF CRAZY AS IT COMES loose on me. Had I known what I know now about the way One 51 Place is managed by this woman, all the special deals in the world could not have wrangled me into moving to this apartment complex. I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL MY 12 MONTH LEASE ENDS!!! In my opinion this is one woman Manager who has hostility and racial issues which need to be taken in hand by someone superior to her. Re-training on how to work well with others would be good idea for her superiors to order up for her. Someone higher up may possibly need to consider putting her in a position other than that of Manager. Or maybe a decision needs to be made to let her go all together if she cannot be rehabilitated. She certainly DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS!!!!! One day she laid out one of the really nice maintenance workers by yelling and demeaning the person openly out in front of one of the buildings. It must be really hard for people to have to work with her. The way she speaks to others is appalling. She really doesn?t seem to have any respect for her fellow workers around here, any more than she does the people who actually live here. By previous reviews I have read her mood swing tangents must be more prevalent than I actually knew of personally. I would not recommend living at One 51 Place. more

There are bugs the size of puppies that run from apartment to apartment around here. Yes, pet's are allowed here at One 51 Place; they are just not yours. Do not be fooled by the outside of the apartments they walk - not ride you around to when you come for an initial look around the place. This should have been my first clue of their cheap shody way of running things at this apartment complex before I moved in here a few months ago! more

One 51 Place is surely destined to be the next desired location for section 8 housing in Alachua, FL. To many shady people, suspicious activities, increasing theft activity, broke down cars, vehicles worked on in the parking lot, hoodlums hanging out, loud foul mouth late night porch and parking lot yackers, non-resident swimming pool fence jumpers who party like they live here, and more is what you can expect when you live here. I really despise my choice to relocate here thinking I would live in luxury. For a bonus, you will get a complimentary condescending, disrespectful, uncaring staff and a moody manager! All of these things can be yours for making the choice to live here at these luxury apartments named One 51 Place in Alachua, FL. more

The entire office staff runs in a mode of the left hand NEVER knowing what the right hand is doing. It is very frustrating and feels like being in a room full of waterheads when you try to get a straight answer out of ANY ONE or ALL of them. You have to ask yourself who was bright enough to put these personable? no!, knowledgeable? no!, characters? yes!, in charge of handling things at a property the size of One 51 Place (over 300 apartments). I plan to move out just as soon as my lease ends and I have only been living here five months so far. The office staff here??? They are questionable at best!! It is like a big joke around here that they don't realize we the renters are the ones who provide the money that keeps them employed here and provides their paycheck! These people working here are the rudest, most unconcerned group of people in their league. The manager acts put out when she actually has to give you some of her time. When you try to contact her she is either out to lunch, on break, or on the phone, except when she is out of the office all together on a personal matter or at a meeting of some sort. Her staff has unbearable attitudes. I refuse to try to deal with any of them anymore. I simply drop my rent check in the drop box the first of every month as I drive off of the property headed for work. I am counting the months until the end of my twelve month lease here. I WOULD STRONGLY ADVISE PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING A DECENT LUXURY APARTMENT HOME TO LIVE IN, TO KEEP LOOKING BEYOND ONE 51 PLACE IN ALACHUA, FL. more

This apartment community has no potential! The first and most important issues which reek of failure lie with the owners who create the whole tone of One 51 Place. Simply put, they DO NOT CARE! If you are living in this community or have lived there, you know that I speak the truth. The Rath/Harper gang care very little about anything but their own greed. Daddy Rath relies on his spoiled rotten, dysfunctional adult children to run the show. Trust me, when I say that their level of expertise is ZERO at best. Employees are not at all important to these dreadful people. That fact is evident in the revolving door in the office. When employees work in a hostile work environment (which habitually exists), no one really cares and no one really does their respective jobs well. The residents are the ones who are adversely affected. The people, who are working in the office now, will probably be gone before you ever have a chance to know their names. Maintenance requests, noise complaints, etc. for the most part fall on deaf ears. It is a common occurrence to be told by the workers here when placing a complaint that if you don?t like something you are easily replaceable, there is a waiting list of people willing to take over your apartment, and that Fred Rath, Jr. could care less if you move out so don?t even bother going over their head to notify him of your complaint(s). I think that is a terrible attitude for representatives of a company to have and may be a major factor as to why there is always such a BIG turn over in residents living here and also why there are so many vacant apartments all the time around here. All anyone needs to do is walk or drive through the apartment grounds taking time to observe or stop and actually talk to residents already living here to learn the truth about this place, especially when the office is closed and the help has gone home! This place seems to have a really horrible method for screening applicants for their apartments too. It allows them to move in ANYONE with questionable backgrounds, whether it be financial or criminal. You may want to ask yourself if it isn?t your best bet to simply avoid ever moving in here, at all cost. IT IS NO PLACE TO CALL HOME!! The RENT here is too high and the STANDARDS are too low to maintain a well-rounded community at One 51 Place. I would move now but can't afford the PENALTIES these creeps impose. I have found there are many options available since beginning my search for a new place as my lease ends this summer. more